<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:37 AM, John Packer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.packer7@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.packer7@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div>Due to the growth of the community, usually there is a high traffic of emails of highly specific topics.<br></div>I believe these qualities of diversity of topics and large quantity of messages are not a good fit with a mailing list, resulting in quite an unpleasant experience for subscribers.<br></div>To worse the situation, it's hard if not impossible to comment in an ongoing mail thread if you are not already subscribed to the mailing list (i.e. people might not be able to comment in the few specific topics they are actually interested in).<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would encourage you to subscribe to the tagging list. I've been on it for some time. The list has it hot topics which for some months, like this last December, generated a lot of traffic. Most months have a fair but not unmanageable amount of traffic.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div>The solution seems to be a move of the discussion of tag definition to a forum platform, which would be a more appropriate place due to the qualities described above. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Forms vs. mailing lists. Some people like one but not the other. Does anyone like them both? Ideally we would have the best of both on some new tool. But right now it seems to be one or the other. How about starting a tagging forum to see if gets traction. I'm not sure who has admin rights to create new forums, but the talk mailing list would be a good place to start. (And I get the irony of my suggestion.) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>I think this is important for increasing diversity in the tagging mailing list, because few people can deal with a mailing list like that.<br></div>How can we do this?</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Can you explain how moving to a forum would increase diversity? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Clifford<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_seattle<br></div><div><a href="http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div>
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